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[Ken]

Hyperbole, sarcasm, and outright dismissal weakens your position significantly,  Gerald.

You're better than that.

Isn't that all Rex does or am i interpreting wrong?

There is a big difference between advocating your beliefs... and I think Rex honestly believes what he's saying... and purposefully misconstruing someone else's beliefs into a theoretical dystopia to make it easier to attack.

Terms like "absurd position" and "la la land" are dismissive, at best. It shows you aren't actually open to considering the position and is a common tactic used (mostly by extremes on left AND right) to shout down ideas different than theirs.

Then provide us your solution? So far all it has circled back to is we don't like how taxes are spent so we shouldn't pay them, also, taxes are theft anyway.

You provided a link to the Libertarian party's beliefs which, itself, indicated that taxes would most likely still be necessary when they stated, "to the extent possible." Not sure how else you can interpret that but i'm open to hearing that.

Ultimately, it still appears to boil down to this:

If the premise is that taxes are fundamentally illegitimate, then you're advocating for a country where there are no taxes.  If that's not what you're advocating for, then you're just saying that taxes should be lower, and/or that taxes should be done differently.  That's a very different argument.

In which case i guess that's the closest you've come by suggesting a use-tax.